U.S. scraps key European missile defense component

The U.S. is abandoning a key part of its Eastern European missile defense plan due to development problems and funding, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says.

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Saturday, 16.03.2013.

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WASHINGTON The U.S. is abandoning a key part of its Eastern European missile defense plan due to development problems and funding, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says. Hagel told the press on Friday that the decision was made as part of an overall restructuring of the country's missile defense plans, with an eye to stopping perceived threats from Iran and North Korea, Russia Today has reported. U.S. scraps key European missile defense component Russia strongly opposes interceptors, which is the main reason the U.S. will scrap its plan to deploy them in Poland and Romania, AP has reported. It also allows the U.S. to start new negotiations about weapons control with Moscow. The restructuring of the program will see USD 1bn shifted to add some 14 new interceptors to the 26 existing ones in Alaska designed to counter potential North Korea missiles, Russia Today points out. Washington claims that its decision was prompted by a need to address North Korea's faster-than-anticipated progress in nuclear weapons development. (Beta/AP, file) Tanjug

U.S. scraps key European missile defense component

Russia strongly opposes interceptors, which is the main reason the U.S. will scrap its plan to deploy them in Poland and Romania, AP has reported. It also allows the U.S. to start new negotiations about weapons control with Moscow.

The restructuring of the program will see USD 1bn shifted to add some 14 new interceptors to the 26 existing ones in Alaska designed to counter potential North Korea missiles, Russia Today points out.

Washington claims that its decision was prompted by a need to address North Korea's faster-than-anticipated progress in nuclear weapons development.

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